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Purpose
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Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…
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Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…
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Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through…
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Diversity
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Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…
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Social Connection
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When researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…
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Happiness
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Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…
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Forgiveness
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Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…
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The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…
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Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…
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“Self-compassion allows children to process and cope with difficult emotions. Eventually, it can help them see their common humanity—that everyone suffers sometimes—and know that it’s all right to feel bad.”― How the Pandemic Can Teach Kids About Compassion, by Maryam Abdullah